Geumgang jeondo

The painting is currently held and managed by the Ho-Am Art Museum in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province and is owned by Lee Kun-hee.

While many contemporaneous painters imitated the latest art trends from China, Jeong Seon ignored these to create unique themes based on Korean landscapes.

The highest peak, Birobong, lies in the background and water flows from it toward a valley called Manpokdong which is divided from the left and right.

The names of Teacher Choi Oen-su(최왼수), Prof. Yu Jeon-yeong(유준영), and Prof. Oh Ju-seok(오주석) are coming to mind.

[2] From the synthesis provided by Pr Gang Gwansik(姜寬植), this painting encompasses the landscape in a circular form, creating a "Geumgang planet".

[3] To obtain this result, some elements were resized, displaced or even suppressed, as can be seen by comparing with other paintings by Jeong Seon, like the Geumgang in autumn.

--to be continued-- The upper left corner of the work contains the title of the painting 金剛全圖 (Map of the Geumgang Mountain) as well as the signature and the stamp of the artist.

But a more precise analysis undertaken by Gang Gwan-sik has shown that this 60 characters inscription has not been written by Jeong Seon.

Discard title, poem, signature, etc.
Discard title, poem, signature, etc.
Pond shaped homage in the upper right corner